Md Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan
is currently a Humboldt research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (MPIL), Germany. He served as an Associate Professor at the Department of Law & Justice, Southeast University, Bangladesh before coming to the MPIL. He was a visiting scholar at the University of Oxford, UK; Cardiff University, UK; Emory University, USA; and University of British Columbia, Canada. He holds a PhD in law from the University of Queensland, Australia and an LLM from Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. He has co-edited Human Rights and International Criminal Law (Brill, 2022), Revisiting the Geneva Conventions: 1949–2019 (Brill, 2020), Law and Religion in the Liberal State (Hart Publishing, 2020), International Natural Resources Law, Investment and Sustainability (Routledge, 2017), International Trade Law and the WTO (Federation Press, 2013), An Introduction to International Refugee Law (Brill, 2013), Globalization, International Law, and Human Rights (Oxford University Press, 2012), Routledge Handbook of International Environmental Law (Routledge, 2012), An Introduction to International Human Rights Law (Brill, 2010), and International Humanitarian Law – An Anthology (LexisNexis Butterworths, 2009), amongst other scholarly books.
Ann Black
is an Associate Professor and Reader at the TC Beirne School of Law at the University of Queensland. Her research is in comparative law, law & religion, and legal pluralism, with particular interest in Islamic law and the law and legal cultures of Asia, with many scholarly publications featuring Brunei Darussalam. This links to her teaching in comparative law courses in Law School’s undergraduate program (Asian Legal Systems and Islamic law); in the School’s Master’s program; and as a PhD supervisor. She has been a Visiting Professor at six universities, most recently at the University of Vienna. She is a co-author with Hossein Esmaeili and Nadirsyah Hosen for Modern Perspectives on Islamic Law (Edward Elgar), and co-editor with Gary Bell of Law and Legal Institutions of Asia: Traditions, adaptations and innovations (CUP). Assoc Professor Black is the Executive Director for Comparative Law in the Centre for Public, International and Comparative Law and is a member of UQ’s Law and Religion Research Cluster.